Roadway.



PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

D. N. LONG, DEGD.

M. A. LONG, EXEOUTRIX.

ROADWAY.

APPLICATION FILED mm: 17. 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID N. LONG, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK; MARY A. LONG EXEOUTRIX OF DAVID N. LONG, DECEASED.

ROADWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,295, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed June 17, 1903. Serial No. 161,834:-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID N. LONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Roadway, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to roadways in which tramways or wheel-tracks of paving-brick or other material are used to carry the vehicle- Wheels without tending to the formation of ruts alongside of said track-s. I attain these objects by means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of the road. Fig.2 is a top view of one track. Fig. 3 is a top View of the other track. Fig. 1 is a top view of a modified track. Fig. 5 is another view of a modified track. Fig. 6 is another view of a modified track.

Similar reference figures and letters refer to similar parts. 7

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 1, 2, 3, and 4 are double rows of blocks or bricks constituting treads for carrying the wagon-wheels. They are. preferably set at an angle between ten and thirty degrees from right angle with the road to form depressions or jogs on their outer sides and so the center joints between them are not liable to allow ruts to start and form by the action of the wagon-wheels. These tread-bricks are preferably seton a base of concrete 5 and nicely leveled by foreing a straight-edge down upon them before said concrete has set or hardened. The concrete 5 may restdirectly upon the earth if well drained. Between and on the outsides of these brick wheel-tracks a layer of stone or burnt-clay ballast 1 is located, and it may be used to surface the road about as shown in Figs. 1 and 5 and preferably bound with a little clay. This ballast may be cheaply burned by incorporating dried clay in the spaces in brush-heaps, for instance, or other refuse, like straw, swamp-grass, refuse wood, and rubbish generally, either alone or preferably mixed with brush or other material to allow of the free access of air while burning. The bricks forming the wheel-treads proper may be laid flatwise in the cement 5, as shown by 1, 2, 3, and 1 in Figs. 2 and 3, or they may be set on edge about as shown in dotted lines between the side bricks 7, 8, 9, and 10. The side bricks 7 and 8 should be used occasionally at distances of eight to twenty feet apart, according to the traffic of the road, to carry the wagon-wheels upon the tracks. While the bricks 1 and 2 may have the ordinary surface of four by eight inches, the side bricks 7 and8 are preferably nine or more inches long in order to project somewhat and form a notch to catch and carry the wheels upon the tracks without forming ruts on the sides thereof. These side projections should be in the direction toward the main course of wagon-wheels in returning to the tracks after turning out in passing teams. When short side bricks like 9 and 10 are used in place of the longer bricks 7 and 8, they should be placed closer together than the latter, as their action is not so effective. The stones 11 and 12 and 7' or bricks 13 and 14 may also project directly from the ordinary jogs of the tread-bricks, especially if protected from getting loosened from the tread-bricks, to which they should be cemented by anchor-bricks, stones 7a, or other material, the tops of which may be even or below the level of thesurface of the treadbricks, and their bottoms may extend below said bricks to afiord good anchorage, while the side projections directly next to the treadbricks should extend slightly above the treads about as shown in Fig. 1 in dotted lines to better carry and keep the wheels upon the tracks. The bricks 6 may be laid, as shown, to enable the side bricks 7 and 8 to be more securely held to them by cement and also to provide wider notches and jogs to catch the wagon-wheels.

The tread-bricks 1, 2, 3, and 4 should preferably slope outward and downward about as shown in Fig. 1 to more readily carry the water and mud to the outsides and off from them and into the spaces between the side jogs, in which spacesthe road-surface should slope downward to carry the mud away from the tread-bricks.

The centers of the wheel-treads are located somewhat nearer together than the usual gage of the wagons using the tracks, so the wheel from the center of the road will be upon its track before the wheel outside has come in contact with its track, whereby the formation of ruts outside of the tracks is measurably prevented.

In Fig. 4 different lengths of bricks a and b are used for the treadsfor instance, eight and nine inches long, respectively-so their joints are farther apart, and consequently less liable to allow the wheels to enter and form ruts between the ends of the bricks a and 7/; but they may also be of equal lengths, as shown by dotted lines. These bricks are preferably set at an angle of about eleven degrees from right angle with the line of the road, by which arrangement a greater length of road is covered with the same number of bricks than if set at a greater angle; but they may also be set crosswise of said tracks, as their joints will still jog from the adjacent joints, as shown in Fig. 6. They jog in series of two bricks each to form greater. projections and depressions on the sides of said tracks to more readily catch and carry the wagon-wheels upon them and with the longest bricks at the side of the deepest depressions.

In Fig. 5 a single row of bricks are used instead of the double rows shown in the other figures, with the bricks a laid fiat and the bricks f set on edge, with series of two flat bricks or three on edge laid with their ends even to better engage and hold the side bricks g and it.

Crushed stone or burnt clay '5 is preferably used along the sides of the treads shown in the various figures, about as shown in Fig. 5, to-prevent the formation of ruts along the sides of the treads.

In Fig. 6 the long bricks Z may jog with the shorter bricks m by being laid crosswise, with occasional short bricks 0 and p, adapted to engage bricks to carry the wheels upon the tracks.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. agon-wheel tracks of double rows of paving brick or blocks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, substantially as set forth.

2. Wagon-wheel tracks of double rows of paving brick or blocks with the center joints between the ends of the bricks out of line with the joints of the adjacent bricks, as described.

3. Wagon-wheel tracks of double rows of paving brick or blocks with the center joints between the ends of the bricks out of line with the line of said tracks, substantially as set forth.

4. lVagon-wheel tracks or treads of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks.

5. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks and engaging the ends of two ormore bricks, substantially as set forth.

6. d agon-wheel treadsor tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks and engaging the ends of two or more bricks which ends are nearly parallel with each other, substantially as set forth.

7. WVagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line .of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks and beyond the sides ofthe bricks adjacent to them, as described.

8. \Vagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending occasionally from depressions in the sides of said tracks, substantially as set forth.

9. Vagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks ordinarily forming depressions at each brick on the sides of said track, substantially as set forth.

10. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, ordinarily forming depressions at each brick on the sides of said track with an occasional series of two or more bricks with their outside ends nearly even, substantially as set forth.

11. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said bricks, ordinarily forming depressions at each brick on the sides of said track with an occasional series of two or more bricks with their outside ends nearly even and engaging side projections, substantially as set forth.

12. Vagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said bricks, ordinarily forming depressions v at each brick on the sides of said track with an occasional series of two or more bricks with their outside ends nearly even and engaging side projections extending beyond their sides, substantially as set forth.

13. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said bricks, ordinarily forming depressions at each brick on the sides of said track with an occasional series of two or more bricks with their outside ends nearly even and engaging side projections of longer dimensions than the tread-bricks, substantially as set forth.

14:. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at angle from right angle from the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks, in the direction of wheels mounting said track after turning out in passing teams, substantially as set forth.

15. Wheel-tracks of bricks set nearly at a right angle with the usual direction of wagonwheels when returning to said tracks after turning out for passing teams, substantially as set forth.

16. WVheel-tracks of brick set nearly at a right angle with the usual direction of wagonwheels when returning to said tracks after turning out for passing teams, side projections from said tracks nearly at right angles with said bricks, as described.

17. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks and secured to said tracks by cement, substantially as set forth.

l8. Wagon-wheel treads or tracks of bricks set at an angle from right angle with the line of said tracks, side projections extending from depressions in the sides of said tracks with their tops above the level of the surface of said tracks, substantially as set forth.

19. l/Vagon wheel tracks the surfaces of which slope outward and downwardly, combined with occasional upward and outward projections from said tracks, substantially as set forth.

20. Wagon wheel tracks the surfaces of which slope outward and downwardly, combined with occasional upward and outward projections from said tracks, the road-surface between said projections sloping downwardly from the outside of said tracks, substantially as set forth.

21. VVagon-wheel tracks, the centers of the treads of which are closer to each other than the usual gage of the wagon-wheels using said track, substantially as set forth.

22. WVheel tracks of bricks of different lengths, substantially as set forth.

23. WVheel-tracks of double rows of bricks of different length substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID N. LONG. Vitnesses:

WM. F. DOYLE, Gr. HILTON. 

